During Winter, the prisoners felt true bitter cold. Because of the incredibly cool weather, Eliezer’s foot swelled. He consulted a fellow Jew, a doctor prior to imprisonment, and is told that he needs immediate operation to prevent amputation. In the hospital, Eliezer was fed properly and didn’t have to work. After he awakened from his operation, Eliezer was afraid to ask the doctor if his leg has been amputated, but the doctor assured him that “in two weeks you'll be fully recovered… able to walk like the others.” (page 80). Two days after his operation, Eliezer heard that the front was advancing to Buna, and that very day the camp was ordered to evacuate. Hospital occupants were not to be evacuated, however, and Eliezer worries that they…
The time period during World War II was very devastating. There were a countless amount of brutal deaths, with people even being burned alive. The setting of Night takes place in 1944, in a concentration camp called Buchenwald. It all starts out when the main character, Eliezer, has his Jewish hometown overrun by the Germans. Eliezer's hometown gets turned into a ghetto by the Germans, and they are forced to stay in the ghetto until the whole neighborhood is sent to the concentration camps. Since the neighborhood is Jewish, they are shipped off in cattle carts to the concentration camps, where most of the neighbors will spend the rest of their days. One of the ladies on the cattle cart was even going crazy. “ Look! Look at this fire! This…
Elie and his father march to Gleiwitz and are crammed into barracks. They are soon crowded into cattle cars of 100. Fights broke out over pieces of bread that were thrown into the cars by Germans. Those who died were thrown off the train. Only twelve remained in Elie’s car when he and his father arrived at Buchenwald.…
In the book Night, Elie Wiesel utilizes similes and metaphors to prove that as people despite facing the most cruel dehumanization will continue to struggle to survive by relying on animalistic and mechanical instincts within themselves.. For example, as Holocaust prisoners were being shepherded from one camp to another in the Death March during the winter, Elie recounts “I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine. I was dragging this emancipated body that was still such a weight” as they were forced to endlessly run and would be put to death if they stopped, yet he continued to press forward to survive (Wiesel 85). In this simile, there is an emphasis on how Elie feels that he’s just moving…
Number: This symbolizes your identity in the concentration camps, it is what defines your fate.…
In Night by Elie Wiesel, the narrator, Elie Wiesel, gives a first hand account of Auschwitz. A concentration camp led by Germany during World War II. The story begins when Elie starts to notice that things are starting to change in Germany and neighboring countries, that involve the Jewish population. Throughout the book he tells the stories he has from Auschwitz, and explains what was his thoughts and feelings about certain things that go on inside of the camp. Toward the end of the novel it explains what was going on with him and his fellow prisoners escaping the camps and trying to survive outside of the camp. Whilst throughout the course of the novel it explains how Wiesels relationships change with certain people…
On the evening of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) the Jews in Buna gather for a prayer. Eliezer, who once lived for prayer and religious study, rebels against this. He feels that humans are, in a sense, greater than God, stronger than God, to still pray to a God who allows such horrors. "I was the accuser, God the accused……
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel he talks about what he’s been through. He also writes about his struggles and what he has suffered through when he was under Nazi control. The Nazis didn’t care one bit if the Jews died and didn’t stop once to realize that what they were doing was very wrong and crucial. In the Galician forest, near Kolomay the Gestapo forced the Jews to dig huge trenches and when they had finished their work the Gestapo shot the Jewish prisoners into the huge trenches without passion or haste (Wiesel 6). The Jews fell into to the huge bloody trenches and those who didn’t die straight away after being shot would be left to bleed out and slowly die in the pit (6). Jewish people needed to live the Holocaust but the crucial Nazis…
Through the course of Night by Elie Wiesel, one clearly notices that the events happening in the book greatly affect the reader on an emotional level. Above all that, though, it is the voices coming up throughout the book that make the reader truly think about, and eventually feel, what the characters are feeling at that specific moment. These voices influence and completely change how we perceive the book in such a way that without them, we wouldn't be able to fully understand the story and it would just feel like another written record of the Holocaust to us. Among the many voices used in the book, there are three that stood out the most to me as a reader; the voices of Moshe the Beadle, the Rabbi's son, and Juliek the violinist.…
Metaphor- “Thousand gates and one gates leading in to the orchard of mystical truth.” This is a metaphor because each gate represents each human being and to never make the mistake of wanting to go into any path but our own.…
Elie Wiesel could be described as your normal, average boy who loved his family, friends, and God. All this changed when WW2 began. Wiesel’s whole life got turned upside down and changed. Wiesel, along with his father, got sent to a concentration camp. In that camp they had lost everything, their personal possessions, their family, and even their will to live. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction, imagery, and tone to illustrate the loss of humanity during the holocaust. Loss of humanity was a huge theme during the holocaust because of all the things they had lost and the way the Naziz did this.…
Elie Wiesel was born September 30, 1928, in Signet, Transylvania, known now as Romania, he grew up with three sisters. Wiesel pursued Jewish religious studies, which was strongly influenced by the traditional spiritual beliefs of his grandfather, as well as his parent's liberal expressions of Judaism. Wiesel studied at the Sorbonne in France from 1948 - 1951 he majored in journalism, writing for French and Israeli publications. Wiesel later published in Yiddish the memoir And the World Would Remain Silent in 1956. The book was shortened and published in France as La Nuit, and as Night for English readers in 1960. The memoir became an acclaimed bestseller, translated into many languages, and considered a seminal work on the terrors of the Holocaust. Night was followed by two novels, Dawn (1961) and Day (1962), to form a trio that looked closely at humankind’s harsh treatment of one another. He has also penned many other books and become an activist, orator and teacher, speaking out against oppression and inequality across the world. Wiesel had a passion for journalism but teaching was another passion of Wiesel's, he was appointed in the mid-1970s as Boston University's Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. He has also taught Judaic studies at the City University of New York, and served as a visiting professor at Yale. Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, numerous other awards, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor's Grand Croix. Wiesel later founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity with his wife Marion (Erster Rose) Wiesel.…
Wiesel’s choice of diction in a passage from his devastating novel, Night, reveals his tone towards joy and celebration during the hopeless times of the Holocaust. By using the word “mirage,” he has implied that the Jewish inhabitants of the concentration camp have created an internal fantasy where things are improved and a positive aura resides. Holidays are meant to be a time of happiness; therefore, Wiesel uses a word with a positive connotation to highlight that for us. Furthermore, a mirage defines something that, in reality, does not exist. This definition is true to the word’s use because we as the readers know that the joy of the Jewish New Year was simply masking the daily terror and misery of life in a concentration camp.…
In the book “night”, Elie Wiesel wrote from an objective point of view to complete his memoir for certain reasons. First of all he wrote if from objective to give to give an understanding to the Audience that what is going on the not just with him but other Jews too. And he began with Moishe the Beadle because it all starts when he started to warn everyone that bad times were coming for them and it came true in the first chapter.…
When it comes to wars and genocides, there’s always 2 sides. The side that took a part and the victims involved. In this case, we get to see a Nazi, Auschwitz soldier and a Holocaust victim. Elie Wiesel, a 15 year old, and a Jakob W. who became a Auschwitz guard in the 1940’s. Who’s side would you chose? Elie, victim, or Jakob, Auschwitz guard?…